T200 fireworks

slimtim · 29 June 2005, 00:38

Possibly the best fireworks display I have ever seen, and I was all the way over on the IOW!!! It must have been something else if any of you saw it from Pompy.

A few pics are attached.

The really bright one is the grand finale

Phil Davies · 29 June 2005, 00:48

Magnificent photos, Tim. Nobody, but nobody, does pomp and circumstance quite like the Brits

How the organisational skills and brilliance of those people responsible for a pageant of such magnitude and splendour contrast with the abject mediocrity of the scum that are our politicians

It's enough to make you weep.

slimtim · 29 June 2005, 00:56

Thanks Phil, it certainly was spectacular!

I'll be doing some prints soon if anyone is interested.

Tim

Solent Ranger · 29 June 2005, 02:20

Mine were taken from a rib. Just a different perspective!

codprawn · 29 June 2005, 03:11

What I wouldn't have given to have been there!!! Think of me stuck in bored meetings and having to face accountants and bankers - JOY!!!!

LOVE fireworks - and boats and the sea - what a combination!!!! haven't even seen any of it on TV!!!!

tim griffin · 29 June 2005, 07:47

Great pictures Tim and Dave

it was amazing being out on the water and then seeing all the ships light up
awsome sight.

Phil Chitty · 29 June 2005, 08:12

Fantastic photos.

jewels · 29 June 2005, 08:49

Amazing pictures!

Jimbob · 29 June 2005, 09:04

very good photos

Solent Ranger, i hope you dont mind but i have copied the first picture.... there is just something that makes it quite special for me

Phil Davies · 29 June 2005, 09:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimbob

Solent Ranger, i hope you dont mind but i have copied the first picture.... there is just something that makes it quite special for me

I agree. It's akin to an oil painting and the colours are stunning - you really ought to get that published somewhere

Solent Ranger · 29 June 2005, 09:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jimbob

i hope you dont mind but i have copied the first picture.... there is just something that makes it quite special for me

No problem, I've got copyright

. I did play around with it a bit as taking the pic from a "bobbing" rib does tend to exagerate movement so I thought I'd enhance it so it did, as has been said, resemble and oil painting. I actually got several more along the same lines. Even my wife wants to use one for her desktop.

Swifty · 29 June 2005, 09:48

Applause to everyone who contributed to making a great day. The pictures capture only a tiny part of it. Shame about the weather but hey ho.

If the organising commitee for the Olympics were watching, we should get a few extra marks!

Best bit of the day: the fireworks
Worst bit of the day: the weather
Head slap moment of the day: Somehow managed to lose my shoes?
Nugget award: The Wally boat who ran aground "in the entrance to Chichester harbour" and was actually found aground at Langstone!!
Best "dont normally see that" bit: Looking behind me to the torch light procession of a thousand boats going home.

Reccomendations: Dont let BBC do a traffic report during the finale?? and play the music.

Tim'mers.

Scary Des · 29 June 2005, 10:24

Radio conversation between a French and British warship.

0900 ‘French ship ‘so and so’ This is HMS ‘such and such’ we are schedules to practice a gun solute with you, please respond over.
No response
0930 ‘French ship ‘so and so’ This is HMS ‘such and such’ we are schedules to practice a gun solute with you, please respond over.
No response

1000 ‘French ship ‘so and so’ This is HMS ‘such and such’ we are schedules to practice a gun solute with you, please respond over.
No response

1030 ‘French ship ‘so and so’ This is HMS ‘such and such’ we are schedules to practice a gun solute with you, please respond over.
No response

1100 ’French ship ‘so and so’ This is HMS ‘such and such’ we are schedules to practice a gun solute with you, please respond, over.

1101 ‘This is French ship ‘such and such’ (in a questioning Gallic voice) but we do not have a gun’

Made me laugh, and what was even more funny was that trying to decide whether they had spent two hour looking for a gun or whether they had been asleep

Des

Nick Hearne · 29 June 2005, 10:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scary Des

Radio conversation between a French and British warship.

0900 ‘French ship ‘so and so’ This is HMS ‘such and such’ we are schedules to practice a gun solute with you, please respond over.
No response
0930 ‘French ship ‘so and so’ This is HMS ‘such and such’ we are schedules to practice a gun solute with you, please respond over.
No response

1000 ‘French ship ‘so and so’ This is HMS ‘such and such’ we are schedules to practice a gun solute with you, please respond over.
No response

1030 ‘French ship ‘so and so’ This is HMS ‘such and such’ we are schedules to practice a gun solute with you, please respond over.
No response

1100 ’French ship ‘so and so’ This is HMS ‘such and such’ we are schedules to practice a gun solute with you, please respond, over.

1101 ‘This is French ship ‘such and such’ (in a questioning Gallic voice) but we do not have a gun’

Made me laugh, and what was even more funny was that trying to decide whether they had spent two hour looking for a gun or whether they had been asleep

Des

Neal · 29 June 2005, 11:27

Thanks for the photos (any more?) our view along with about 5000

others was not so good with the mist & smoke etc. We did not get out of London till 18.30 so did not bother trying to get down to the sea front. We went for the high up view over Portsmouth from Ports Down. Still got to see some fireworks but it looked lot better close up from the news and pictures.